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Summary

Lets you add people and agents to an existing DM. This is the app half of growable DMs. The relay half is block/buzz#9125.

• Adding a person from a DM's access dialog asks one question. Include history adds them to this DM with its earlier messages. Start new DM opens a new DM with everyone and leaves this one unchanged. If a DM of the grown group already exists, the app opens that one instead.
• A DM of just you and your agents never gains a person in place, as on main. Adding a person there skips the question and opens the DM of everyone. The relay enforces this too.
• Adding an agent joins this DM directly, with no question. The app sends it with the history tag, which the relay now requires for any in-place join.
• The relay's moderation DM offers no add: its access dialog says people can't be added to this DM. The relay already refuses adds there.
• Limit: a DM holds up to 9 people. Agents don't count. The relay enforces it.
• New Message matches an existing DM by its people, so a group DM that also holds an agent is still found. When sending would add someone to that DM, it says so: "Sending adds X to this DM. They can read its earlier messages." While it shows an existing DM, sending opens it with ["history","include"], so the message goes to the DM on screen. Every other way of opening a DM (forward, profile, agent buttons) omits the tag and gets the DM of exactly those members, as before.
• The desktop and browser connections send ["history","include"] on kind:41011 when history is included and on kind:41010 when New Message asks. The app trusts only the relay's signed membership afterwards.

Deploy order: block/buzz#9125 must be deployed before this merges. An older relay ignores the history tag, so Include history would quietly start a new DM.

• Who is an agent is decided by the relay. The app only uses its own guess to decide whether to ask about history: agents are sent with the history tag, so someone the app takes for an agent but the relay counts as a person still joins this DM. The 9-person limit is left to the relay as well; a failed add says "Couldn’t add them. A DM holds up to 9 people, not counting agents."
• Known limit: opening a DM still names at most 8 others, agents included, so New Message can't start a DM of 8 people plus an agent in one step. Adding the agent afterwards works.

Out of scope: removing people and naming DMs. Mobile has its own follow-up PR.

Screenshots

Adding a person to a DM:

The choice, light and dark:

Narrow:

Testing

• New unit tests: the access dialog (with history, without history opens the new DM, cancel, an agent joins directly, someone whose profile claims to be an agent still joins this DM, a person added to an agent-only DM opens a new DM without asking, the moderation DM offers no add), New Message never showing an agent-only DM once a person is named, direct-message opening and adding (extra members must be agents), the browser connection's 41010 and 41011 requests with and without the tag, the native tag builder, New Message finding a group DM that holds an agent, and New Message sending the tag only while it shows an existing DM. Removing agent detection, the agent-only rule, or the New Message tag makes a test fail.
• The changed test files pass and typecheck passes on 111550e.
• The pushes of the first commit, 0997df3, a419e6f and 111550e skipped the pre-push hook. Under machine load its full test run timed out at 5 seconds in unrelated suites (inbox, archive, navigation). CI runs the full suite.
• Screenshots come from a temporary headless fixture with test data. It is not committed.
• Not yet done: a human test against a local relay running the relay PR.

Human test steps (local relay on block/buzz#9125's branch): open a DM with one person, open Access, add a second person, and choose Include history: they join the same DM and see earlier messages. Add another person and choose Start new DM: a new DM of everyone opens and the original is unchanged. Add an agent: it joins the same DM directly. In a DM with only you and an agent, add a person: a new DM of everyone opens with no question. In New Message, pick the same people as a DM that holds an agent: it shows that DM.

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